WHERE LIFE IS SEIZED

Adam Shatz, a contributing editor at The London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He has been a visiting professor at New York University and a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars. Raised in Massachusetts, he studied history at Columbia University and has lived in New York City since 1990. and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review, a accepté que soit publié sur le site de la Fondation Frantz Fanon l’article écrit pour la London Review of Books. https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n02/adam-shatz/where-life-is-seized Cet article sera traduit en français dans la revue Vacarme, à paraître en automne. Where Life Is Seized Écrits sur l’aliénation et la liberté by Frantz Fanon, edited by Robert Young and Jean Khalfa. La Découverte, 688 pp, £22.00, October 2015, ISBN 978 2 7071 8638 6 Author of the anti-racist jeremiad Black Skin, White Masks ; spokesman for the Algerian Revolution and author of The Wretched of the Earth, the ‘bible’ of decolonisation ; inspiration to Third World revolutionaries from the refugee camps of Palestine to the back streets of Tehran and Beirut, Harlem and Oakland ; founder, avant la lettre, of post-colonialism ; hero to the alienated banlieusards of France, who feel as if the Battle of Algiers never ended, but simply moved to the cités : Frantz Fanon has been remembered in a lot of ways, but almost all of them have foregrounded his advocacy of resistance, especially violent resistance.